400981 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics
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Focus is being given to understand gene-environment interaction, drug-environment interaction and toxin- environment interaction. There is a close collaboration between environmental science and medicine in addressing these issues, as healthcare itself can be a cause of environmental damage or remediation. Demand for more pharmaceutical products may place the public at risk through the destruction of species. The entry of chemicals and drugs into the aquatic ecosystem is a more serious concern today. In addition, the production of some illegal drugs pollutes drinking water supply by releasing carcinogens. This eld is intimately linked with public health elds. experimental pharmacology involves the study of pharmacology through bioassay, to test the ef cacy and potency of a drug. dental pharmacology relates to the study of drugs commonly used in the treatment of dental disease. The study of chemicals requires intimate knowledge of the biological system affected. With the knowledge of cell biology and biochemistry increasing, the eld of pharmacology has also changed substantially.
